Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. A Jew in Czarist Russia was wrongly accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy; it was a cause celebre out of which Malamud has constructed a memorable tale of one man's nightmare...
...that firepower is bound to lead to trouble, as the Philippine crime rate proves. According to the National Department of Investigation, crime in the Philippines jumped 51% last year, There were 8,750 murders (more than in New York), 5,000 rapes and 6,519 armed robberies. The national penchant for violence is reflected in Manila's thriving Tagalog-language movie industry. Currently packing them in at the Rialto is Fernando Poe Jr. in Switchblade, a film in which "the sacred treasures of a church and a dozen lives rest on the courage of one man and his skill with...
Justice works slowly in the islands, and not until Dec. 7, 1939, was Marcos arrested for the murder. He was then within five months of graduating with honors from law school. From his jail cell, Marcos successfully petitioned for his release on bail, then succeeded in winning his degree (two cops accompanied him to his graduation). In the subsequent bar examination, he scored the highest average ever (98.01%). When the puzzled judges accused him of cheating on the exam, Marcos demanded that he be tested orally?and scored 92.35%, the second highest average in history. Then, clad in a white...
Graft & Huks. War's end left the Philippines with wounds even more painful than those Marcos had suffered. Filipinos had learned a way of life that centered on murder, thievery and revenge. Every Filipino had a gun?or soon acquired one from the vast caches of armaments left behind by the Japanese and American armies. Though graft had its roots in the Spanish period, the postwar inundation of the Philippines with large stocks of U.S. military surplus turned black-marketeering into a national pastime. "First you became a small businessman," recalls one observer, "then a crook, then a big businessman...
Having used eight pages to warn against dangling participles (As reconstructed by the police. Smith denied all knowledge of the murder), the book commits at least two: In calling them defensives . . . the intimation is . . ., and In closing, it may he useful to suggest ... It deplores neologisms but scatters its own through the text: educationese, initialese, sequelant, beslang...